How to Use hateful in a Sentence

hateful

adjective
  • But Lamb isn’t as hateful as all that.
    — Barbara Ellis, Denver Post, 20 Oct. 2025
  • But there is a way to put an end to — just put a stop to this hateful bill.
    — CBS News, 14 Mar. 2023
  • How did a show about making out make fans so hateful?
    — Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2025
  • His humor is far more hateful than clever at this point.
    — Bobby Burack Outkick, FOXNews.com, 27 Apr. 2026
  • But neither of them seem racist or hateful.
    — Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 21 Apr. 2026
  • The best response to hateful speech is to raise your own voice against it, not to ban it.
    — Jonathan Zimmerman, WSJ, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Suicide rates are so high because of hateful bulls–t like that.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 21 Sep. 2022
  • One man said the signs weren't intended to be racist or hateful.
    — Evan Casey, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 Sep. 2020
  • Games—as long as an athlete’s actions are not deemed hateful.
    — Josiah Bates, Time, 3 Aug. 2021
  • The other 1/3 were very hateful with threats, etc.
    — Claire Osborn, Austin American Statesman, 23 Feb. 2026
  • The other 1/3 were very hateful with threats, etc.
    — Jacob Beltran, San Antonio Express-News, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Jake Lang, bigot, hateful, of course.
    — Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Day was facing an immense amount of hateful comments and calls for him to be fired.
    — Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 May 2025
  • Some people sent me hateful messages in regards to my weight.
    — Priscilla Rodriguez, Allure, 21 Dec. 2020
  • Gay said she has been subjected to hateful racist messages and threats.
    — Gina Martinez, CBS News, 3 Jan. 2024
  • The vlogger fully put trolls on blast for their hateful comments.
    — Kelsey Stiegman, Seventeen, 25 Feb. 2020
  • In the grand scheme of things, the new Space Jam isn’t hateful or inept.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 14 July 2021
  • In the last few months, hateful rhetoric against Chinese people has spiked.
    — Sara Li, Teen Vogue, 27 Feb. 2020
  • Some viewed what Kirk said as extreme, hateful, racist and sexist.
    — Taylor Seely, AZCentral.com, 20 Sep. 2025
  • Black said the synagogue has received hateful emails and phone calls.
    — Rosario Del Valle, Sun Sentinel, 3 June 2025
  • The platform has itself been called a cesspool, rife with hateful rhetoric and falsehoods.
    — Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 29 Jan. 2025
  • Their court papers cited hateful speech and threats against the justices.
    — Carrie Johnson, NPR, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Her response, so far, has been to tune them out, even when the hateful rhetoric escalates.
    — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 13 Apr. 2023
  • There were and still are a lot of hateful people out there that don't want us out and in front of the world—that hasn’t changed.
    — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 30 Nov. 2021
  • Well, there were a lot of hateful messages yesterday.
    — ABC News, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Democrats are hateful, hostile, ignorant and out of touch.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Some observers saw the event as just the latest in a campaign filled with hateful comments.
    — Frank Vaisvilas, Journal Sentinel, 28 Oct. 2024
  • The record shows that myths about the past can be exploited to create hateful policies.
    — Mary Rambaran-Olm and Erik Wade, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 July 2021
  • Are human beings prone to doing hateful things?
    — Tara Sonenshine, Baltimore Sun, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Platforms that host hateful content need to do more to combat it, Blake said.
    — Scottie Andrew and Katherine Jennings, CNN, 30 Aug. 2020

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